Best for
- Families preparing a larger recipe book
- Editors creating navigation
- Designers checking final page references
Cookbook index
Family recipe book indexing
Prepare a family cookbook index plan for recipe names, ingredients, contributors, chapters, alternate names, and page references.
What the handoff includes
- Index term list
- Contributor index
- Alternate-name notes
- Final page-reference checklist
Workflow
- List recipe titles and alternate names.
- Choose ingredient and contributor terms.
- Generate a draft index structure.
- Check page references after layout.
Review safeguards
- Do not invent ingredients or allergen claims.
- Review names and spellings with the family.
- Recheck page references after every layout change.
Service boundary
FamilyRecipeLegacyAI helps organize, transcribe, and format private family recipes. It does not provide nutrition, allergy, food safety, legal, or publishing advice. Families should review every ingredient, measure, name, and story before sharing or printing.
When paid recipe book prep is worth it
Buy the $49 starter after the free brief has a small sample or first 8-12 pages, enough context for OCR review, chapter planning, measurement flags, and one family reviewer. Use the $149 full prep when the family needs a fuller private booklet handoff with source mapping, permissions, proof tracking, contributor notes, archive structure, and private sharing planning. Skip payment if you need scanning, perfect OCR, physical printing, public publishing, file-permission changes, messages sent, nutrition, allergy, food-safety, copyright, legal, publishing, or printer advice, or guaranteed transcription, print quality, delivery, refunds, privacy, approval, sales, or revenue.
Can the index include ingredients?
Yes, as an organizational aid, but it is not a nutrition or allergy analysis.
When should page numbers be finalized?
After the layout is stable and the final proof is available.